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<H2 ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">SECOND INTERNATIONAL GAY YOUTH CONGRESS</FONT></H2>

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<P>Roughly 50 young gay men and lesbians participated in the Second International
Gay Youth Congress in Dublin from July 7 to 12 [1985]. The Congress was
funded, in part, by the European Youth Foundation and was attended by delegates
from Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland (North and South), the
Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States
of America.</P>

<P><B><I><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">The following are 4 of the 13 resolutions
adopted:</FONT></I></B></P>

<P><IMG SRC="yellowba.gif" HSPACE=5 HEIGHT=14 WIDTH=14><B>As young people,
we must be free to choose our own identities and lifestyles. We oppose
ages of consent and all laws which restrict consensual sexual activity
because, as young people, they limit our sexual freedom and deny us the
right to choose who we relate to sexually.</B></P>

<P><IMG SRC="yellowba.gif" HSPACE=5 HEIGHT=14 WIDTH=14><B>We call for the
abolition of all ages of consent and demand that young people's and women's
complaints of sexual assault be taken seriously and that positive discrimination
be applied to counter existing power imbalances. Youth must be made less
dependent on older people, materially and emotionally.</B></P>

<P><IMG SRC="yellowba.gif" HSPACE=5 HEIGHT=14 WIDTH=14><B>We would like
to insist that the organizers of the Third International Gay Youth Congress
spend as large a time as possible, and make positive discrimination in
order to encourage more female delegates, non-white delegates, and younger
delegates to attend this congress. Only when this is achieved will the
congress be representative of all ... </B></P>

<P><IMG SRC="yellowba.gif" HSPACE=5 HEIGHT=14 WIDTH=14><B>We, the Second
International Gay Youth Congress, urge the Northern Ireland Gay Rights
Association and Cara Friend to withdraw their dismissive attitudes towards
gay youth and to campaign strongly for an equal age of consent with their
heterosexual counterparts, while ages of consent still exist.</B></P>

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<P>from <A HREF="bulletin.htm">The NAMBLA Bulletin</A>, Vol. 6, No. 9 (Nov.,
1985), Pg. 2. </P>

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	<H2 ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">SECOND INTERNATIONAL GAY YOUTH CONGRESS</FONT></H2>

	<CENTER><P><IMG SRC="colorbar.gif" HEIGHT=3 WIDTH=600></P></CENTER>

	<P>Roughly 50 young gay men and lesbians participated in the Second International
	Gay Youth Congress in Dublin from July 7 to 12 [1985]. The Congress was
	funded, in part, by the European Youth Foundation and was attended by delegates
	from Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland (North and South), the
	Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States
	of America.</P>

	<P><B><I><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">The following are 4 of the 13 resolutions
	adopted:</FONT></I></B></P>

	<P><IMG SRC="yellowba.gif" HSPACE=5 HEIGHT=14 WIDTH=14><B>As young people,
	we must be free to choose our own identities and lifestyles. We oppose
	ages of consent and all laws which restrict consensual sexual activity
	because, as young people, they limit our sexual freedom and deny us the
	right to choose who we relate to sexually.</B></P>

	<P><IMG SRC="yellowba.gif" HSPACE=5 HEIGHT=14 WIDTH=14><B>We call for the
	abolition of all ages of consent and demand that young people's and women's
	complaints of sexual assault be taken seriously and that positive discrimination
	be applied to counter existing power imbalances. Youth must be made less
	dependent on older people, materially and emotionally.</B></P>

	<P><IMG SRC="yellowba.gif" HSPACE=5 HEIGHT=14 WIDTH=14><B>We would like
	to insist that the organizers of the Third International Gay Youth Congress
	spend as large a time as possible, and make positive discrimination in
	order to encourage more female delegates, non-white delegates, and younger
	delegates to attend this congress. Only when this is achieved will the
	congress be representative of all ... </B></P>

	<P><IMG SRC="yellowba.gif" HSPACE=5 HEIGHT=14 WIDTH=14><B>We, the Second
	International Gay Youth Congress, urge the Northern Ireland Gay Rights
	Association and Cara Friend to withdraw their dismissive attitudes towards
	gay youth and to campaign strongly for an equal age of consent with their
	heterosexual counterparts, while ages of consent still exist.</B></P>

	<CENTER><P><IMG SRC="colorbar.gif" HEIGHT=3 WIDTH=600></P></CENTER>

	<P>from <A HREF="bulletin.htm">The NAMBLA Bulletin</A>, Vol. 6, No. 9 (Nov.,
	1985), Pg. 2. </P>

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	<P><A HREF="boys.htm"><IMG SRC="m0p7nau7.gif" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=58 WIDTH=58></A><FONT COLOR="#804000">Copyright
	© NAMBLA, 1998. All rights reserved. </FONT></P>

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